Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Here at once we see the result of special attention to our language. No superficial student could have written this sentence, and we even doubt whether those who have not had the advantage of special instruction in English at Neophogen College will fully understand it. We humbly acknowledge that we do not grasp the meaning in the words, "the whirlpool of commotion in the files of the nation"; but when the editors go on to say of the College Pen: "From its incipiency we have regarded it as one of the most important features of the school," we are able...
...into everything under the sun. The monotony of constant variety - the most maddering monotony on earth - has had its natural effect upon them. They find nothing interesting upon a superficial inspection. They are really too much exhausted to retain energy enough to devote themselves thoroughly to anything. And the result is that they amuse themselves, or rather that they try to think that they amuse themselves, by dressing well, lolling in comfortable arm-chairs, and yawning out between the puffs of tobacco-smoke all sorts of cynical complaints about the stupidity of the little world in which it has pleased...
...simpler logarithmic tables; he remembers well enough the constitution of the Amphyctyonic Council, but on election day eliminates the electors from his ticket, and votes for President directly (as a Western Professor really did), and then practical politicians call him a "d-n literary fellow." This is the result of his college training! A college-bred man can do better in professional life, where his irregular habits may be tolerated, than in business; but even here he is at a disadvantage beside a plain, matter-of-fact man of the world...
...amazed at your own roughness, to say the least, when you mingle once more with the fairer portion of humanity. A man at college, where home and where home friends do not happen to be accessible, is very apt to pass almost all his time with men. And the result is that a college education, which ought to make finished gentlemen, oftener succeeds in roughening than in polishing the diamonds which are confided to its care. I remember that during my Junior year I went to one or two of the assemblies as they called the parties which the students...
...players, that they had not even read over the Rugby Union rules under which the game was conducted. It was patent to any unbiassed spectator that Harvard was governed in the main by custom, and that her so-called surprise at Yale's method of playing was the result of ignorance on her own part...